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Canada got the last hurrah at the Celebration of Light Saturday evening, closing the three-night event with a winning display. Canada was declared the winner of the event, with Brazil and China finishing second and third, respectively.

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I’'e towed a few things over the years, including a 29-foot Airstream travel trailer and a 23-foot car hauler loaded with everything from fuel cell vehicles to a 30-year-old propane-powered Checker taxicab. Our crew has set up drag races between Chevy, Ford and Dodge pickups hauling farm tractors down abandoned airstrips on open trailers and horsed gooseneck low boys loaded with 10 tons of concrete blocks through the back roads and foothills of Gatineau Park.

VICTORIA — When Ombudsman Jay Chalke was handed the job of investigating those botched firings in the health ministry this week, he offered multiple assurances to the public that his office would do its best to get to the bottom of the murky affair. “I am committed to a diligent and professional investigation into this matter,” he vowed in a statement issued by his office after a legislature committee referred the matter to him.